[Kde-games-devel] RFC: Rename KBattleShip and KTron

[Jeremy Bicha]

I think it's rather questionable whether Hasbro (formerly Milton
Bradley) has sole rights to the name Battleship to describe this type
of game.  Here's a bunch of links for you (or your lawyers) to come to
your own conclusion:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_%28game%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_%28puzzle%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_%28video_game%29 looks like
this had nothing to do with Hasbro/MB
http://tess2.uspto.gov/ US Trademark search, notice the 30-year old
Computer Battleship wasn't owned by Hasbro/MB and has lapsed.
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-games-devel&m=112288888226392 And Fedora's
had this issue with Battleship for several years.

Finally, I don't think Hasbro has tried to shut anyone down for a
Battleship computer game and there have been a lot of people
distributing these games over the years.

Jeremy Bicha


On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Mauricio Piacentini <piacentini at kde.org> wrote:
>
> Ryan, is it possible for you to send us a link to the information
> passed to you guys by your legal team? It looks like there is a good
> chance we will be able to do this renaming, and having this
> information would help us.
>
> Regards,
> Mauricio Piacentini